From the University of Southern California Law News Service
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Examining the New U.S. Supreme Court Term
USC Law holds panel discussion with legal scholars Ken Starr, Erwin Chemerinsky, Rebecca Brown and David Cruz
WHAT: The USC Gould School of Law will hold a discussion and debate on the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court term discussing the dynamics of the Court, important cases, and how the presidential election may affect the future makeup of the Court.
WHO: Dean Kenneth W. Starr of Pepperdine University School of Law, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of the Donald Bren School of Law at UC Irvine, and Professors Rebecca Brown and David B. Cruz of the USC Gould School of Law will serve on the panel. USC Law Professor Elizabeth Garrett will moderate the discussion.
WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 1, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Reception to follow.
WHERE: USC Law Ackerman Courtroom, USC Law, 699 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, 90089
PARKING: Please call Gilien Silsby for complimentary parking reservations.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON PANELISTS:
REBECCA BROWN is a constitutional theorist who joined USC Law in August. Brown’s scholarship focuses on judicial review and its relationship to individual liberty under the U.S. Constitution. She is currently researching a shift in the Supreme Court’s approach to constitutionalism. Professor Brown clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and U.S. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Spottswood W. Robinson III. She also served as an attorney advisor in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. From 1988 to 2008, Brown was a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School, where she held the Allen Chair in Law. Brown received her B.A. from St. John’s College (Annapolis, Md.) and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was an editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.
DAVID B. CRUZ is a constitutional law expert focusing on civil rights and equality issues. He teaches a variety of courses at the USC Law, including Constitutional Law; the First Amendment; and Federal Courts. Before joining the USC Law faculty in 1996, Professor Cruz was a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General in Washington, D.C. He also clerked for the late Honorable Edward R. Becker, Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is president of the International Lesbian and Gay Law Association and a general counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union. Professor Cruz graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Irvine, and earned his master’s degree from Stanford University. He is a graduate of New York University School of Law, where he was managing editor of the New York University Law Review.
KENNETH W. STARR is dean of Pepperdine School of Law and an expert on constitutional law, federal courts, federal jurisdiction, and antitrust. Dean Starr was admitted to practice in California, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He clerked for Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and the Honorable David W. Dyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. In addition to working in the private sector, he has served as counselor to U.S. Attorney General William French Smith, judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, solicitor general of the United States, and independent counsel on the Whitewater matter. As solicitor general, he argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court. Dean Starr’s best-selling book, "First Among Equals: The Supreme Court in American Life," was published in 2002. He earned his undergraduate degree form George Washington University, his master’s degree from Brown University and his law degree from Duke Law School.
ERWIN CHEMERINSKY is the inaugural dean of U.C. Irvine School of Law. A constitutional law and federal civil procedure scholar, Dean Chemerinsky frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court and the United States Courts of Appeals. In April 2005, Dean Chemerinsky was named by Legal Affairs as one of “the top 20 legal thinkers in America.” In 2004, he joined the Duke Law School faculty after 21 years as a professor at USC Law. He was named dean of UC Irvine School of Law in 2007. Dean Chemerinsky has written more than 100 law review articles in top law reviews, including Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Michigan Law Review and Northwestern Law Review. He is also the author of several books, including "Federal Jurisdiction" (2007) and "Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies" (2006). Dean Chemerinsky received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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